Presentation by Ben this morning at LSS Board to tell us why the waste paper desk bins are being taken away. In Richmond Building (where I currently live) rather than JBP Building (where some others live) this has happened already. So the main focus was on how to communicate what is happening and why it is happening to the staff and students that will be affected. It is being promoted in three ways: reputation (e.g. league tables on green-ness), environment and saving money - those were the order of the slides........
Of course, Ben pointed out it's even better not to recycle at all - prevention of waste in the first place. A good example of that might be something mentioned a few weeks ago at Gartner - "de-materialise" - we used to have CDs but now we download MP3 files. It's a bit of a clumsy term so maybe someone has seen a better word or phrase. One small way in which IT could help is establishing a freecycle presence so will look into how that is coming along.
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